Here are six fundamental keys to renovating your health on a grand scale. These are better-do changes if you want to live an active life, free of pain and degenerative diseases and able to fully enjoy the pleasures of good health into advanced age. At Senior Fitness.com the 6 keys are discussed in greater detail, but here is the short story.

Anti-aging

Make a decision to pay attention to anti-aging technology and to get interested in optimizing your health. Seek and read information on health; make it a hobby. Adopt the attitude that your body knows how to heal, rebuild and grow, if you just give it the right materials and stimuli. Choose foods, activities, supplements that build health and avoid those that degrade it. Believe that health problems can be reversed and tomorrow you can be stronger, faster and smarter than you were yesterday. Science is brimming with exciting new truths about health and rediscovering old wisdom daily ? pay attention!

Exercise

The stimulus for regaining a healthy body is exercise, and nothing works as well as weight training, resistance training, body building: whatever you want to call it, get off the couch and start pumping iron. Weight training is anti-aging! It coaxes all metabolic functions to improve and biases your body to repair and rebuild. Here is the simplest of workout concepts: one day Pushing, one day Pulling, and one day Legs. Three days a week, less than one hour per day, and you will make a major overhaul of your body and health. Adopt it as a lifestyle; it is very addictive and uplifting. The smart way is to join a gym and hire a personal trainer so you make rapid progress and don't learn it wrong to start. Spend the money ? you deserve the success.

Nutrition

Start eating real foods. Stop eating fake foods. These simple statements are fraught with complexity, and you need to learn the fundamental differences. Basically, you need to be eating real fruits, real nuts, real vegetables and real meats, and not artificial processed things made from those. Example: cheese is a food; Cheesits is not. Likewise, potatoes are food, potato chips are not. Grain and grain products are a special consideration. Products such as breads, pastas and cereals are for the most part, made with refined flour, which is pretty much like eating sugar. Switch to whole-grain or sprouted grain items for the best nutrition. Make baked goods a very small part of your diet.

Eliminate all refined oils. If it is unrefrigerated and sitting on the grocery shelf in a clear bottle, it is a refined fat that will increase inflammation throughout your body. Use extra-virgin olive oil and extra-virgin coconut oil for cooking, and eat nothing that has the words ?partially hydrogenated? on its label. Read the header article at Senior Fitness.com/Nutrition to get further details. You are what you eat, and you need to eat that which will let you thrive. The details in our article will give you guidance. For more top-level information on nutrition, one of the best websites is run by Dr. Mercola (.com).

Rest and Recovery

Don't over-train ? more is not better when it comes to exercise. With the 3-day workout plan your body has a week to recover each muscle group worked, and there is enough rest between workouts to recover systemically. If you don't get enough rest (sleep), your other efforts to improve health will fail. Nothing depresses the immune system faster than lack of adequate sleep; combine that with over-training, and you are guaranteed to get sick. If you are an insomniac, you need to fix the problem. There are solutions to for getting restful sleep; you may need to see a specialist, but not sleeping well will kill you faster than most other sins.

Supplements

The same supplements that allow top natural bodybuilders to grow abundant muscle and drive body fat to incredibly low levels will give you the upper hand on reshaping your aging body. The supplement categories to investigate are:

Secretagogues ? to increase growth hormone production, such as Secretagogue Gold by MHP

Testosterone boosters ? to crank up this vital anabolic hormone of youth, such as Attitude from SAN

Creatine formulations - to promote energy production, strength and muscle growth, such as Cellmass by BSN

Nitric Oxide boosters ? to improve blood flow and move nutrients into the muscle structure, while boosting energy during workouts, such as BSN's NO-Xplode.

Joint Nutrient Supplements - to supply the raw nutrients to allow cartilage repair and regrowth, and to maintain synovial fluid health.

Take a full-spectrum vitamin-mineral-phyto-extract product like Life Extension Foundation's Life Extension Mix to assure adequate baseline nutrition. It will make up for many bad habits. Add Resveratrol to your supplement list; this one substance may prove to be the closest thing to the fountain of youth. The latest studies show it to produce the same benefits as caloric restriction - the only proven strategy to extend life span in virtually all animal life.

Attitude and Thinking

The attitude to foster is that you can be better tomorrow that you were today; you can make incremental improvements in those activities you use to measure your well-being. The thinking to keep at the front of your mind is that the pursuit of health and fitness is a worthy and exciting game. Someone once said ?Hey, long term we're all dead!? ? just don't let that stand in the way of enjoying a great life.

Good Living - Frank